December 2006

• December 14, 2006 14 Dec'06

  Working towards a better world

  The IT Volunteeer Awards showcase the talents and achievements of volunteers that have made a real difference to their chosen charities. John Riley takes a look at the winners  Continue Reading

• December 14, 2006 14 Dec'06

  Storage news weekly: Symantec sues plus more

  Symantec sues alleged software counterfeiters; iconic founder of Seagate has died; EMC software revenues up, IDC says.  Continue Reading

• December 14, 2006 14 Dec'06

  T-Mobile on the virtual line to rapid expansion

  T-Mobile Direct is pioneering the use of IBM's virtualisation technology to simplify the management of its IT infrastructure after nearly doubling its retail outlets in a year.  Continue Reading

• December 14, 2006 14 Dec'06

  Bad Santas and party poopers out to stop Christmas fun, survey finds

  Many IT managers have a "Scrooge mentality" when it comes to Christmas celebrations at work, with many organisations placing restrictions on work parties.  Continue Reading

• December 14, 2006 14 Dec'06

  Hosted VoIP eases office relocation

  Group GSA is an architectural firm with 100 staff located in Sydney, Brisbane and Perth. Group GSA's continued growth meant that its Sydney office move to larger premises in August 2006 - relocating all staff and their head office operations.  Continue Reading

• December 14, 2006 14 Dec'06

  Identity Management in a Virtual World

  I was highly impressed with the company and the discussion at a CIO dinner in London last night. A main topic of conversation was Second Life, the new virtual reality world that seems to have ...  Continue Reading

• December 14, 2006 14 Dec'06

  Choose and Book stalls after software upgrade

  The Choose and Book system, a central part of the NHS’s £12.4bn National Programme for IT [NPfIT], went down for much of Monday after a new release of software was installed two days before on ...  Continue Reading

• December 14, 2006 14 Dec'06

  Land Registry and IBM in e-security deal

  The UK Land Registry and IBM have signed a three-year multimillion-pound contract for Big Blue to deliver a Land Registry e-security system for all of its web-based services.  Continue Reading

• December 14, 2006 14 Dec'06

  Former IT worker jailed for planting ‘logic bomb’

  A former IT worker at UBS has been jailed for eight years in the US for trying to financially benefit from a “logic bomb” he planted on the bank’s network.  Continue Reading

• December 14, 2006 14 Dec'06

  BT launches Fusion Wi-Fi service

  BT has launched BT Fusion Wi-Fi for businesses, bringing together the benefits of fixed and mobile convergence on one mobile device.  Continue Reading

• December 14, 2006 14 Dec'06

  Lancashire police force goes mobile

  Lancashire Constabulary is to become the first UK police force to deploy a force-wide mobile data system, involving up to 3,500 users.  Continue Reading

• December 14, 2006 14 Dec'06

  Symantec confirms security flaws in Veritas NetBackup

  Symantec has confirmed there are security vulnerabilities in its Veritas NetBackup products, which are used widely across businesses.  Continue Reading

• December 14, 2006 14 Dec'06

  Hitachi spies opportunity in added San and Nas

  Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) is to make major moves in the global high-performance computing (HPC) storage market.  Continue Reading

• December 14, 2006 14 Dec'06

  New open source virtualisation from SWsoft

  Server automation and virtualisation software provider SWsoft has launched Plesk 8.1 for Linux/Unix and Plesk 8.1 for Windows control panel software.  Continue Reading

• December 14, 2006 14 Dec'06

  VMware gets added channel for virtualisation products

  Ecora Software has announced a reseller agreement with Entisys, a VMware Premier Enterprise Partner  Continue Reading

• December 14, 2006 14 Dec'06

  Xen upgrades open source virtualisation

  XenSource has announced a new family of server virtualisation products.  Continue Reading

• December 14, 2006 14 Dec'06

  Virtualisation benefits overstated by suppliers

  Consolidation of servers in datacentres through virtualisation has clear benefits to companies but the benefits are overstated by suppliers, says an Impact Research report from Info-Tech Research Group.  Continue Reading

• December 14, 2006 14 Dec'06

  VoIP softswitch

  Mera Systems' MVTS II (Mera VoIP Transit SoftswitchII) will support sophisticated routing capabilities, including various options for a carrier to send requests to ENUM registries, analyse the responses and use information received to take optimal ...  Continue Reading

• December 14, 2006 14 Dec'06

  DECT wireless VoIP solution

  The Kirk DECT Wireless Server 600v3 is a fully scalable wireless VoIP solution to meet the needs of small to medium-sized business through to large multi-site enterprises. It provides a radio base, controller and IP interface all in one box, ...  Continue Reading

• December 14, 2006 14 Dec'06

  Dell appoints new head of IT global services

  Dell has appointed Steve Schuckenbrock to lead its IT global services organisation.  Continue Reading